Conference Topics 2023
Agrivoltaics systems
- System assessment and performance indicators
- System models and simulation
- Decision support systems
- Multi objective optimization methods
The management of agriculture production under photovoltaic panels
- Plant and crop physiology (Shade tolerance, crop adaptation to agrivoltaics systems)
- Crop growth models (to simulate crop response to agrivoltaic environments)
- Selection of species and varieties (and crop rotations) suitable for agrivoltaics
- Plant response to biotic and abiotic stress under PV panels
- Management and protection of soil
- Water management, rain harvest, water storage and irrigation
- Genotype x Management x Environment interaction in agrivoltaics
- Livestock management
Technical aspects
- Data sharing and analytics
- PV panels for agrivoltaics (bifacial, thin-film, organic PV, lead-free perovskite, spectral splitting, CPV...)
- Agrivoltaics mounting systems and geometries (row distances, vertical clearances, PV row width, trackers etc.)
- Solar radiation assessment
- Shadowing ratios
- Case studies, best-practice technologies
- Smart farming and artificial intelligence modelling and solutions
Environmental, legal and socio-economic aspects
- Economics of agrivoltaics and business models
- Legal framework of agrivoltaics
- Environmental impact
- Multiple ecosystem services and agrivoltaics
- Water Food Energy Nexus analysis
- Agrivoltaics in public policies
- Quality assurance and standardization, safety
- Social acceptance
- Agrivoltaics promotion and dissemination
- Ethics of agrivoltaics
- Potential analysis
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emission (methan)
